<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436574" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hopefully 'Something' Is Being Learned</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A capitalistic way of life foreclosed, <br>Has put an end to values claimed.<br>That treasured piece of the pie grows mold.<br>And standards proclaimed can no longer be maintained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shocked into reality and stunned by defeat, <br>People who once gloated then...<br>Find themselves now knocked off their feet.<br>No longer now declining others, <br>To be neighbors on vacant streets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who knew the quietness of suburbia, <br>Find a fresh kindred with those in shelters.<br>Those kept enclosed to live lives on urban streets.<br>Victims of the greedy...<br>Who never thought they'd see, <br>Themselves sharing a commonness...<br>With the people they described as lazy, shiftless and weak.<br>How bleak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A capitalistic way of life foreclosed, <br>Has put an end to values claimed.<br>That treasured piece of the pie grows mold.<br>And standards proclaimed can no longer be maintained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who is to blame for their misfortunes? <br>A self righteousness flushed down the drain? <br>Who can they now point their fingers to as heathens? <br>Do they look at mirrors found, <br>Without lowering their heads in shame? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That's doubtful.<br>Since they've been conditioned and trained, <br>To see themselves above all others.<br>With any changes made...<br>To return them back to times that were, <br>For them that remains the same.<br>Unchanged, <br>Lacking empathy.<br>And ungrateful.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well...<br>Hopefully 'something' is being learned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436574" data-title="Hopefully 'Something' Is Being Learned de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="A capitalistic way of life foreclosed, Has put an end to values claimed. That treasured piece of the pie grows mold. And standards proclaimed can no longer be maintained. Shocked into reality and stunned by defeat, People who once gloated then...."></div> </div> </div>

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